Today's Features

Christmas special services at EastLake Community Church
Eastlake Community Church announces their Christmas Special Services and Events in their new facility at 1118 Hendricks Store Road (the old Shoprite building).
Friday, Dec. 24, at 8 p.m. Christmas Eve Service “Candles, Carols and Communion.”
Sunday, Dec. 26, at 10 a.m. Combined Worship Service (No Sunday School or Children’s Church).

Advent services
Fort Hill United Methodist Church invites the community to attend the fifth annual Midweek Community Advent services on December 1, 8, 15 and 22. Prelude begins at 11:45 a.m., service at noon, with lunch served each week immediately following the service.
This year’s schedule of speakers and music are:

BUMC to present 'Christmas Cantata'
Bethlehem United Methodist Church in Moneta will present a special Christmas Cantata “A Thrill of Hope,” by Joel Raney, Sunday, Dec. 5 at three different times: 8:30 a.m.; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Robert Downey is choir director.

Haiti is hot and humid all the time, although it can get down into the 60s on the little country’s central plateau. Diseases are a problem — malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, some hepatitis, tetanus. Nevertheless, Bob Routh and Adele Dellavalle-Routh are frequent visitors. Most years, they go down there twice.